"Samsung does not comment on rumors or speculation," said Chris Donohue, a Samsung spokesman, in an email.

The Baltimore-based sports apparel maker entered the fast-emerging fitness technology market late last year when it acquired MapMyFitness, maker of the MapMyRun and MapMyRide mobile applications and websites, for $150 million. The sports brand had said it would integrate MapMyFitness applications into its Armour39 devices, but it planned also to keep the application open to all devices.

Samsung is positioning itself to compete with Apple's first wearable device, expected to be introduced later this year, the report said. In September, Samsung released the Galaxy Gear smartwatch, which works on Google Inc.'s Android platform.

Apple, meanwhile has been in a years-long partnership with Nike, offering products such as the Nike + iPod Sport Kit, which includes a shoe sensor that tracks data such as distance and connects with Apple products, and FuelBand, a wearable device that also links to Apple products.

The city's Board of Estimates is to vote Wednesday on a plan for a hotel on the historic Recreation Pier in Fells Point, calling for the city to alter an ordinance to allow the Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank-backed hotel to proceed without a public promenade around the property.

Under Armour, which has wooed consumers with sweat-wicking T-shirts and other innovations, is banking on a new fabric that conforms to the foot like a second skin to help the company break into the crowded athletic shoe market.

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